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22 Sep 2014

India Prime Minister plans to set up new IITs for students’ future with foreign help for purpose to boost value of IIT’s

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NEW DELHI: The Narendra Modi(Prime
Minister)-led NDA government strategies to establish five new Indian Institutes
of Technology (IITs) publicized in this year's budget with the assistance of
foreign countries, just as the Congress organized in the 1950s and '60s under
then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru's initiative.

The future IIT in Goa will come up
in teamwork with well-known institutions in the United States, an authorized
familiar with the matter said, adding that human resource development minister
Smriti Irani will accompany Prime Minister Modi to America future this month to
sign a joint declaration for this determination.

The partner countries for the rest
of the proposed premier engineering schools in J&K, Chhattisgarh, Andhra
Pradesh and Kerala will also be recognized shortly, the official added on
condition of anonymity.

The IITs in Mumbai (then Bombay), Chennai (then Madras), Kanpur and Delhi were
established in collaboration with the erstwhile USSR, then West Germany, USA
and the UK respectively.

IIT Kanpur, for instance, had received technical assistance from a consortium of
nine leading US institutions including Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Princeton University and University of California at Berkley.

According to officials, the
consortium of US institutions to help the proposed IIT in Goa will only be confirmed
once the two countries sign a joint declaration of intent. "The details of
how many and which institutions will help IIT Goa and in what capacity will be
worked out by the joint work group, which will be set up after India and the US
sign the joint declaration," the official said. There are 13 IITs at
present, with as many as eight set up between 2008 and 2011 under the
mentorship of the existing institutes during the second term of the
Congress-led UPA government.

Most of the newer IITs endure to
function out of makeshift campuses and face trouble fascinating faculty of the
desired caliber.

Despite such issues, the Indian government
announced another five new IITs in its maiden budget for 2014-15 soon after
taking charge in May. The finance ministry has allocated an initial sum of 500
crore for these institutes this year.

Answering to concerns regarding the
proposed IITs against the backdrop of the wobbly infrastructure provided for
the ones set up over the past few years, Irani had told ET in an interview
earlier this month that she wasn't there to "fix the responsibility for
the past but chart a course for the future".